Long Drives That Lead to Death

It had been less than an hour since he had taken the wheel, to replace his already felt colleague, Naser Sylmetaj.

It was 0600, when the 67-passenger bus, including children who had left Frankfurt for Pristina, left the road in Croatia's Slovenianski Brod.

According to communications expert Nol Deday, one of the reasons for the accident, it can also be driver fatigue.

Deday told Radio Free Europe that the bus driver on the long road should have ten hours off before the second driving shift begins.

The rules are very clear and don't change in the European Union either, because they're defined by the Vienna Convention, and we're defined by the security law that the driver of the vehicle cannot guide the vehicle over 800 kilometers and over five hours without interrupting<1>, Dedaj said.

Deday said that digital taugraphy, which has all buses travelling through European Union countries, can indicate the exact time of driving drivers.

According to him, other possible causes of this accident should be viewed.

The “Pista that needs to be investigated is also the element of the road factor, because of the road elements, then there's the vehicle factor, because you have to see the technical characteristics of the”, Dedaj said.

The long - distance driver's clock is regulated by the Law for Road Transport. Under this law, the length of daily driving should not exceed November.

It could be extended to a maximum of ten hours, but no more than twice this week.

After driving four and a half hours, the driver receives a constant pause of at least 45 minutes, unless he uses a” vacation, the law says.

They didn't want to comment at all on what happened.

Drivers Drive Over and Over

Free Europe Radio has talked with a driver who for 18 years has been driving buses from Kosovo to various countries in Europe.

Wanting to remain anonymous, he told Radio Free Europe that for the time he worked in distant destinations, he has many times driven over and over again.

We were only two drivers. The road is very difficult, and what makes it even harder to wait on boundaries. When you wait up to five or six hours at a border point, then naturally you get that excess fatigue”, the driver said.

According to him, the biggest load of drivers on these streets is during the summer season.

This influx of exiles, in July and August, these two months are overloaded, so even drivers make the road over and over again. I did it over and over again. We've come to Kosovo, maybe we've slept one night and the next early morning we're headed back to street”, this driver said.

Psychologist Yll Avdiaj told Radio Free Europe that all drivers should call their minds and be careful.

“Failure to rest or lack of sleep, or excessive fatigue, which normally affects the human psychicship and makes it inactive and makes it impossible for him to do his job, which could result in even as it did in this” accident, said Adwitaj.

Dead driver's son here.

Radio Free Europe has talked to the bus driver's son, Deva Tours, who died in the accident in Croatia.

Adorim Sylmetaj, son of Naser Sylmetaj, from the village of Gerchia near Gjakova, has said his father had been working at the company for about eight months.

The last time he spoke to his father, the bus was crossing the border between Germany and Austria.

The “were launched three-four days ago, even as they arrived, immediately, only that evening they stopped, and immediately around 0900 o'clock, around the morning, they left for Kosovo”, Sylmaj said.

From July 1st to Sunday, July 25th, from the bus station in Pristina, there have been a thousand and 357 international launch.